Advice on circumcision! Please no hateful comments.

My brother is year younger than me and yet i remember as a baby his was botched. I have a son and I wouldn’t do it to him.

I understand its culture but it is essentially removing a very sensitive part of ur privates as a baby. The healing process is very hard on them too. The reason his culture does it is similar to mine. It is seen as hygienic but in the 21st century we know better . There is no benefit to it as obviously he can learn to clean it when he’s older. It is purely cultural and that does not always mean it’s right. If my son chose to do it when he’s older that’s his choice but to hurt him on purpose for some archaic logic pushed by culture is wrong. In my culture it’s also seen as normal to cut female children’s genitals too. Culture does not always mean it’s right.

Let him choose what happens to his own privates when he’s older.

Absolutely no need to circumcise at all.

Girl I completely understand the pushyness from in laws! That’s YOUR baby 👶 let him decide when he’s older 🩵

I have numerous friends, who are circumcised and it was due to cultural reasons, but they performed a ceremony thing etc like a celebration almost I can’t exactly remember this was years ago and my nickname is really Dory as in Dory from Finding nemo lol 😂
But I mean like you said if it was that important to him he would have done the research discussed it with you etc and he hasn’t so he can’t be that worried !

no definitely not, there is no medical reason for this and it can cause potential problems in the future. x

You don’t have to do it to a newborn and ur baby ain’t even born yet. Give yourself some time imo it’s not an immediate matter. My son is circumcised for religious reasons, it was hard on me going with the process we did it when he was 1.5 yrs. he’s now 3 yrs old and just fine but I fully empathise it’s not an easy decision

Look I did some deep research into this.

Basically US studies show there’s benefits to circumcising. “Can lower HIV and sti, UTI risks and lower rates of penile cancer” however there isn’t enough benefits for them to make it a mandatory procedure for all males. Where places like Australia, UK, most of Europe and New Zealand routine circumcision is NOT recommended. Australia doesn’t offer it as a standard option in public hospitals unless it is medically needed.

If done, it’s also worth noting that scaring can leave behind phantom pains. I still have phantom pains 5 years later after my first child caused me to rip. An infant cannot tell you that their scaring is hurting. Infants also have many healthy spontaneous erections that help oxygenate the tissue and promotes normal development. a foreskin is highly elastic and designed to glide and stretch with these erections. Having a non-elastic ring of scar tissue right at the start of development will change how the tissue behaves.